1st WSMO Implementation Workshop (WIW)

29th and 30th September 2004, Frankfurt

Scope and Topics

Format and Attendance

Important Dates

Agenda & Presentations

Organisation

The proceeding are published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (ISSN 1613-0073):
WIW2004 Proceedings

Scope and Topics

Semantic Web Services are the next step in bringing the web to its full potential, after adding semantics to the static web. Web services can significantly increase the Web architecture's potential, by providing a way of automated program communication and discovery of services. This can be achieved by adding semantic annotations to the description of the component interfaces already available via standard technologies like WSDL, SOAP and UDDI.

Recently, a new major initiative (WSMO) has started in this area which has attracted a lot of attention. WSMO is an ontology for different aspects of Semantic Web Services aiming at solving the integration problem. The joint working groups around this initiative are developing a proper formalisation language for semantic web services and providing (WSML) and developing a reference implementation of WSMO (WSMX).

The objective of this workshop is to discuss different implementations related to WSMO, and to gain insight in problems related to implementing WSMO. We welcome papers on related topics and demonstrations of prototypes or deployed applications.

Topics

WSMO applications:

• WSMO runtime engine
  Demonstrator that are able to handling all or parts of the tasks related to SWS at execution time (discovery, mediation, execution)
• WSMO reasoner and Ontology Infrastructure
  Reasoners and inference engines that provide support for particular constructs of WSML
• WSMO repository
  Semantic enabled repositories that can store and retrieve elements of WSMO (Goals, Web Services, Mediator and Ontologies)
• WSMO editors
  Editors that provide support for editing and browsing WSML descriptions.

WSMO implementation process:

• WSMO interoperability in applications
  This includes WSMO APIs architectures and design studies.
• WSMO compliance in legacy applications
  Studies and Realisation how WSMO applications can inter-operate with existing legacy applications
• collaboration paths
  Strategies on aligning different efforts and interoperability strategies.
• future plans
  

In the areas of (but not limited to these):

• SWS Execution
• SWS Discovery and Matchmaking
• SWS Description
• SWS Orchestration and Choreography
• SWS Mediation
• SWS Planning

Format and Attendance

The program will occupy two days, and will include presentations of papers selected from the full papers category and demonstrations of working implementations. There will be an invited talk by Frank Leymann. Subject to time constraints, there may also be a panel of experts on a selected topic. Panels will be conducted in such a way as to encourage discussion with the audience.

This workshop is open to all members of the SWS community. Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be given priority for registration.

Submissions

We invite submissions of full papers, short position papers and demonstrations. We encourage accompanying demonstrations with a position paper. All submissions should be formatted in Springer's LNCS style, and sent by e-mail to holger.lausen@deri.org. Accepted full papers and position papers papers will be included in the proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be distributed at the workshop and will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series.

Full papers should be not longer than 10 pages and will be peer-reviewed; position papers will receive no review. Accepted full papers will be scheduled for a presentation at the workshop. In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. There will be a demonstration session scheduled for demostrating working implementations.

We emphasise that a larger word count does not necessarily confer any greater likelihood of acceptance. In some cases -such as papers describing early work on a project- it is appropriate for papers to be shorter than 10 pages. Figures that help the reader to quickly grasp the essence of complex material are strongly encouraged.

Position statements are limited to 2 pages and should include some or all of the following:

• introduction of the author(s)
• brief description of your work (and possibly other work at your institution) related to Semantic Web services
• tools or testbeds you have to offer to the community
• discussion of what you view as the most challenging issues in Semantic Web Services and prospects for solving them
• challenges, questions or issues that you'd like to see addressed at the workshop.

Important Dates

Agenda and Presentations

The workshop will be organised in the Hilton Hotel in Frankfurt. Please see the Hilton hotel website for further information and directions.
The preliminary agenda is as follows:

Participants

The list of participants that registered for this workshop:

• Adrian Mocan
• Armin Haller
• Bernhard Peissl
• Brahmananda Sapkota
• Emilia Cimpian
• marc Richardson
• Mariano Rico
• Ioan Toma
• Jacek Kopecky
• Jan Henke
• Joachim Nern
• John Domingue
• Juan Gomez
• Kashif Iqbal
• Liliane Cabral
• Marin Dimitrov
• Matthew Moran
• Michael Felderer
• Michal Zaremba
• Oliver Koch
• Piotr Grobelny
• Ray Hudson
• Uwe Keller

Organisation

Steering Committee

Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute
Christoph Bussler, Digital Enterprise Research Institute

Workshop Organisers

Holger Lausen, Digital Enterprise Research Institute
Eyal Oren, Digital Enterprise Research Institute

Program Committee (confirmed)

Michael Altenhofen, SAP AG, Germany
Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise, Germany
Steve Battle, Hewlett Packard, UK
Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Spain
Mark Burstein, BBN Technologies, USA
Alistair Duke, BT, UK
Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext, Bulgaria
Stefan Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute
John Domingue, Open University, UK
Sungkook Han, Wonkwang University, Korea
Chris Preist, Hewlett Packard, UK
Michael Kifer, University at Stony Brook, USA
Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Bulgaria
Enrico Motta, Open University, UK
Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland, USA
Marta Sabou, Vrije Universiteit, N
Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

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